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I've had a PC running Windows Media Center recording TV on the broad cast schedule for about 10 years now. It currently has 6 tuners (records 6 things at once) for cable broadcasts, and an older tuner to pick up FM on occasion. I can watch live TV/radio, schedule recordings or watch recordings from anywhere in the house that has a TV via Windows Media Center extenders, one Ceton Echo extender and a few Xbox 360s. I can watch iTunes videos or play music, Amazon streaming, or transcode (on the fly) pretty much anything else without any effort by myself or anyone else in the family. With RemotePotato, I can also do anything that I can do in the house from anywhere with a fast enough Internet connection. I can watch TV on my phone, my iPad, or any laptop (we all use OS X, but Windows is easier) in the house.

To put it bluntly, my PC that is slaved to broadcast/scheduled TV kicks the living shit out of every DVR on the planet you've ever seen or known about, especially the shitty ones that the cable companies provide. Whats more important, it means I'm not slaved to the schedule or the commercials.

There are many PCs that come with built in tuners still to this day, as well as a few laptops, though you won't find a laptop that takes a CableCARD as best I can tell, where as full sized PCs or devices like the HDHomeRun Prime do.

I'm fairly certain the only miss here is your analysis.

http://windows.microsoft.com/e...

http://www.silicondust.com/pro...

http://cetoncorp.com/

The only miss here is your knowledge on the subject. Either that or your a cable company shill still trying to kill the CableCARD requirement.

Uhhh according to MSFT its a grand total of 1 to 2 seconds which for a good 99.9% of us? Is frankly more accurate than we'll ever need. It can always use (what I have no doubt is their own take on) NTP if you require tighter clocks but even when I worked corporate I don't think I ever had to use anything other than SNTP, as even most corps don't need to be more accurate than that.

Windows uses the Windows Time Service which IIRC is compatible with but NOT ntpd which is why there is a port of ntpd for Windows if you would desire to use it.

but doing this yourself seems to be a lot cheaper.

Oh? Have you factored in the cost of ensuring that you always have an offsite and fully up to date copy, not to mention secondary and tertiary copies for transit time in case your primary datacenter/server happens to kick the bucket/get stolen/evaporate?

It's easy to compare the cost of an offered service to what you can pick up seeming similar equipment for from Amazon or Newegg... the realities though are far more complex.

and cannot put anything confidential there (unless you are not bothered by various TLAs searching through it).

There are ways to manage even that, see this brief bit of Wikipedia for a start.

I don't know if there are any other commercial or enterprise products out there that do it, but I know this one stores all of it's data in the cloud (with a local cache) but does all of the encryption on site. Only if you choose does the encryption key leave your site and then only in a way you choose making it rather problematic for a TLA or Microsoft to get to your data.

It is an interesting world when you are dealing with data you cannot legally delete for a period of time and simply want to rid yourself of the burden of having to store it locally. Suing Google or Amazon because their cold storage failed is a far better option than having your IT guy tell you that the HD they stored the crucial data to doesn't spin up anymore... and that the backup disk ended up in the secretary desktop.

I haven't read Linux's rant against C++ for a while, but he is correct that C++ isn't a good choice for an OS kernel. The only major kernel written in C++ that I know of is Windows NT, and it uses only a subset of C++ language features. In particular, it disables exceptions, disables RTTI, removes new/delete, and it doesn't have the standard library. Microsoft wrote their C++ compiler with this in mind, and there is a compiler flag to disable kernel unfriendly features (documented here). For everyone else, it's easier to just say that the C++ subset for kernel development is C (minus the standard library).

For non kernel use, C++ is superior to C in the hands of an expert programmer, but mediocre programmers who don't understand the language tend to write absolutely horrible code. And you can't take an expert C or Java programmer and expect them to write expert C++ code with just a few weeks practice. C++ is one of those languages that you have to dedicate a lot of time to, but it can be worth it if you require highly optimized code, have low latency requirements, or have low space requirements (areas where higher level languages like Java don't do well).

A fair amount of M$ patents over Linux are invalid, because Microsoft duplicated and distributed Linux internally.

That distribution kicked in the patent clause of GPL. Thus estoppling all licensing claims their patents against Linux.. I.E. They authorized duplication, distribution, and use by their Employees/Sub-contractors/etc all of which are 3rd parties to M$ corporate patent port folio.

A similar claim can be made for Nokia android phones, which Nokia android phones of which Micosoft paid 7.2 Billion for.

Any decent lawyer can easily point out these estoppel conflicts and moot a motion for a pretrial injunction.

And my reply is always the same: if you make a change, improve the whole system; don't make compromises to core functionality for the sake of cosmetic improvments. Bells and whistles in the window manager are cosmetic. Being able to display output (from a single window, mostly text and line art graphs, not the whole damn desktop) to a different machine across the building is not cosmetic, it is why I use Linux instead of Windows.

Terminal Services RemoteApp (TS RemoteApp) enables organizations to provide access to standard Windows®-based programs from virtually any location to users with computers running Windows Vista®, Windows Server® 2008, or Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3). TS RemoteApp is also available to users with computers running Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1), or Windows Server 2003 with SP2 that have the new Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client installed."

You can have single-application remoting without X11. We can move forward and still have the functionality you're looking for. The only reason you can't display arbitrary applications individually between arbitrary Windows hosts is Microsoft's licensing, but there are relatively few use cases where this matters. Most of the time, you want to run an app from a bigger, badder machine on a lesser machine, and they provide the functionality for that already.

I don't use Windows servers, but it's not because you can't remote one application — you can. "[T]he terminal server that hosts the program must be running Windows Server 2008" (per link) but if you're living in Windows-land, you're keeping your machines up-to-date, right?

@innocent_white_lamb: "The last time I tried that I spent TWO SOLID DAYS at Staples trying to find a laptop that would boot with my Linux "live cd" flash drive."

@Kjella: "You need to go into the BIOS and disable secure boot, then it should load on all of them. If it would boot your Linux distro it'd also boot whatever malware was trying to trojan Windows and that's exactly what they're trying to avoid"

Microsoft: "Secure Boot is a security standard developed by members of the PC industry to help make sure that your PC boots using only software that is trusted by the PC manufacturer."

I don't understand why these members of the PC industry didn't include the Linux makers in the design stage and instead made Secure Boot Windows only. I also understand that UEFI doesn't play nice with dual boot, purely a coincidence no doubt.

It's Service Control Manager. But for Linux.

And all the Linux nerds are butthurt about having a piece of software that actually works and doesn't require shit-tons of arcane knowledge that makes the operator feel special for knowing it well enough to get it working.

Bug free?

I had a Nokia Lumia 920 for a little more than 2 years. I liked it a lot, loved the WP8 interface, the phone was great with a very good camera.

But there was a major bug, and even with the multiple updates it never was fixed.

Sometimes, for unknown reasons, the phone became very very hot (like almost to hot to touch) and the battery drained about 10% every 5 minutes.

It happened about 1 or 2 time a week, but left me a lot of times with a discharged phone when I wasn't fast enough on the reboot.

I was not alone, here is one thread about it: http://answers.microsoft.com/e...

You will notice that it spans 3 years with no solution... some solutions where proposed, but none worked for me and a lot of others.

It's sad but now I have a cheap Moto G running Android and I no longer fear of losing all my battery power in a hour.

any interest in the surface hub? I was surprised no one in here mentioned it, but it is rather new. wasn't sure if it was a bad idea or just too new as I haven't heard many user reviews. http://www.microsoft.com/micro...

isn't microsoft's new surface hub just that? http://www.microsoft.com/micro...

I was opposed to recovery partitions when MS first started using them. But with Win 8 I think they've added enough options that the pros outweigh the cons. It took me a while to find all this info (or rather, learn that MS had even made this possible), so here it is as a PSA:

All Windows 8/8.1 computers come with a restore partition. I highly recommend you buy a 16GB or 32GB USB flash drive and convert that restore partition into a reinstall flash drive.

If you don't like the default recovery partition state (maybe too much crapware installed), you can create a custom recovery partition after you've uninstalled the crapware and installed your programs.

Finally, if you totally screw up, you can still create a Windows 8/8.1 recovery flash drive by using your Windows key and downloading a clean 8-16 GB recovery image from Microsoft.

Microsoft site for creating recovery image.

Instructions for finding your key

I was opposed to recovery partitions when MS first started using them. But with Win 8 I think they've added enough options that the pros outweigh the cons. It took me a while to find all this info (or rather, learn that MS had even made this possible), so here it is as a PSA:

All Windows 8/8.1 computers come with a restore partition. I highly recommend you buy a 16GB or 32GB USB flash drive and convert that restore partition into a reinstall flash drive.

If you don't like the default recovery partition state (maybe too much crapware installed), you can create a custom recovery partition after you've uninstalled the crapware and installed your programs.

Finally, if you totally screw up, you can still create a Windows 8/8.1 recovery flash drive by using your Windows key and downloading a clean 8-16 GB recovery image from Microsoft.

Microsoft site for creating recovery image.

Instructions for finding your key

In Windows 8 you just click the option to restore to a clean system. http://windows.microsoft.com/e...

Microsoft provides all the checksums, just find the ISO here and click "details"...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/

I'm not attached to any of these ideas I posted, so if proven wrong, that is just fine with me... again, they were just thoughts of something that might be useful. TPM 2.0 is part of the Windows Certification spec, but oftentimes, there are many computers that will run Windows 8.1, but are not certified for it. Here is the link: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...

If the system has a nic (unlikely) you could use ftp to transfer the files to a remote host. If it has a dialup modem, you could pick up a null modem cable and do the same thing point to point. Another option is using your com port with a crossover and hyperterminal - https://technet.microsoft.com/...

WFWG will do file transfers fine, just remember to enable the NetBEUI protocol on XP, because WFWG doesn't natively speak TCP/IP.

http://support.microsoft.com/k...

Failing that I'd probably try to get laplink (DOS has a built in version called INTERLNK/INTERSVR) going against a more modern machine with a real parallel port. The disk might get interesting (remember you need a FAT32 volume and DOS 7.1 or later). A USB stick might actually work if the BIOS presents it to DOS as a fixed disk.

Oh no, he's smart: almost every high assurance security offering ever marketed has been ignored by consumers. They *don't give a fuck*. Being the demand side of the equation, they're the reason [1] the suppliers are producing insecure garbage all the time. It's what they buy. Steven Lipner, who managed VAX High Assurance VMM, wrote about the what it taught management here [2]. Summary: users wanted the features more than security and would decide against any product developing features too slow (read: all high security systems). Many users also wanted lower costs (security adds costs) and integration with whatever garbage went mainstream. Intel tried three times [3] to do their part with i432 being a marvel of engineering and Itanium being used in a highly secure, affordable OS [4]. Intel's security-oriented efforts tanked to the tune of billions lost as market favored backward compatibility and price/performance instead.

So, users and market don't give a fuck. Only a niche segment does. Unless subsidized by grants or government contracts, high assurance systems are typically not built at all. All the secure stuff being built is grant-funded academia, defense-funded commercial, and/or high priced, patented I.P. for niche use (eg smartcard, embedded). Those of us left doing custom solutions pre-Snowden had very little business with most doing it on the side of better paying work. Post-Snowden, there's more demand, the demand is once again making insecure tradeoffs, false security abounds, and talent to do high assurance is still mostly nonexistent after market killed it off post-OrangeBook. On top of the millions using ad-driven services and tech that sells them out. Truly don't give a fuck and it ain't changing.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/...

[2] http://blogs.microsoft.com/cyb...

[3] https://www.schneier.com/blog/...

[4] http://www.secure64.com/secure...

Nick P, Security Engineer/Researcher (High assurance focus)

I had that bug too, and for sure it was a pain in the ass. I think they released an update in the last year or two which fixed it.

for all the non believers, here is a technet page with many people having that problem. might have required a renstall of the os to fix. I dont have the problem anymore anyways.

http://answers.microsoft.com/e...

http://answers.microsoft.com/e...

And as others say, it didn't always occur, but when it did, very annoying. For me it was in my downloads directory on a local hard drive. Annoying because I had to constantly refresh to see if things had downloaded yet.

I had that bug too, and for sure it was a pain in the ass. I think they released an update in the last year or two which fixed it.

for all the non believers, here is a technet page with many people having that problem. might have required a renstall of the os to fix. I dont have the problem anymore anyways.

http://answers.microsoft.com/e...

http://answers.microsoft.com/e...

And as others say, it didn't always occur, but when it did, very annoying. For me it was in my downloads directory on a local hard drive. Annoying because I had to constantly refresh to see if things had downloaded yet.

http://windows.microsoft.com/e...

And get rid of all of the other crapware that Lenovo put on your PC in one fell swoop. No doubt it will take more effort to do it this way but it will also be more complete. (I have no idea if this works outside the US.)

For further information I wold check the ideapad section at notebookreview.com where you can find reinstallation help (including the thread I just started.)

I thought this was old news. i.e.

Microsoft is offering a Ubuntu 14.04 in a VM to run Minecraft

For example: where can I get a copy of SkyDrive/OneDrive/whatever which I can run on my own systems ?

SharePoint will do that.
For that matter you can run the entire Azure suite in your private location: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...

if by "hidden away" you mean "easily accessible via a well-documented API", then yes, I agree.

Won't merge? Word has built in merge and diff tools https://support.microsoft.com/...

You missed the space between "Files" and "(x86)" - try that.

Correct you are, and it was a copy and paste. Here's an odd thing I just went through, it would take the space yet wouldn't save it, so figured using %path% might be a better way, found a great source of Windows Resource kits
  http://ss64.com/links/windows.... yet nothing of value for this.

Going back to the environment variables I find a new variable PATH with two paths taken from the original path and the space left intact for VLC, so did the obvious, searched for the maximum length the path can be (I've never run into it before) https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-... says 256 mine is 346 and helps explain some phantom situations (or not).

Note: To specify an extended-length path, use the "\\?\" prefix. For example, "\\?\D:\very long path". where the max length can be 32,767 characters.

Thank you very much I looked at it a lot and couldn't find an error; akin to the in your face syntax error one keeps missing.

Without your reply, well I'm a bit brighter now path wise. and yes VLC will open now from anywhere.

Thanks again for your reply, now just need to start transferring a few paths for that 256 goal.

In theory, an array type that supports long, byte, and bit access to the same data could be made type-safe.

CLR has this in practice:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...

Also [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit)] is somewhat similar (and is considered verifiably safe so long as you only overlap blittable types, and don't use types with architecture-dependent size like IntPtr).

In theory, an array type that supports long, byte, and bit access to the same data could be made type-safe.

CLR has this in practice:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...

Also [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit)] is somewhat similar (and is considered verifiably safe so long as you only overlap blittable types, and don't use types with architecture-dependent size like IntPtr).

It is a problem for me.

Try to get that out of your tiny (or gapping, what do I know) asshole (maybe it's just too much to try to get into your.. uhm.. ass to understand for you.)

Ohnoz, I'm wasting electricity. Thanks for telling me!

I've done that lots of years. Now I have functional sleep at least so sometimes but not always I use that which is much better than having it on. Hibernate doesn't work so I don't use that.

It is a problem. It may not be for you but it is for me. Get over it.

Windows did require me to restart, the restart after a week/a week + one day(?) was enforced.

http://answers.microsoft.com/e...
http://www.redmondpie.com/how-...

Now shut up stupid. It doesn't matter that your opinion is different. Mine is what it is.

Doesn't even make any sense. As for when I reboot I know that thank you. As for getting upgrades I just felt it happened more often than once a month. Maybe life just go past fast though.

http://windows.microsoft.com/s...

"Om du inte anvÃnder automatisk uppdatering bÃr du sÃka efter uppdateringar minst en gÃ¥ng i veckan. Microsoft ger oftast ut viktiga uppdateringar den andra eller fjÃrde tisdagen i mÃ¥naden. De kan Ãven ges ut vid andra tidpunkter."

"MÃ¥nga uppdateringar installeras dock inte automatiskt."

So even Microsofts text says if usually happen ever second OR fourth tuesday which to begin with would be about twice as often, but it also says that it can also happen at other times.

And that many updates isn't installed automatically so I guess if Windows update has fetched some you can later run Windows update and get some others which wasn't fetched automatically beyond the 1 or 2 Tuesdays per month.

One very important part of this latest vulnerability is that patching your systems is NOT ENOUGH. The patch is not so much a fix as an entirely new security functionality which must be configured properly.

It is required to configure a group policy to harden your systems. Any domain-joined system must have both the patch installed and a group policy setup to force the system to use secure authentication and validation mechanism on any sensitive share. Domain shares such as NETLOGON and SYSVOL are an obvious priority, but any share used for software deployment or script execution must be similarly listed.

Make sure you read the KB article and take the proper steps to secure your systems:

https://support.microsoft.com/...

We've been waiting for that vulnerability that will finally create such havoc on XP that people will abandon it.

The security bulletin is vague, as usual, but it does say:

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in how Group Policy receives and applies policy data when a domain-joined system connects to a domain controller. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to convince a victim with a domain-configured system to connect to an attacker-controlled network.

An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system and then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. The security update addresses the vulnerability by improving how domain-configured systems connect to domain controllers prior to Group Policy accepting configuration data. ...

Although Windows Server 2003 is an affected product, Microsoft is not issuing an update for it because the comprehensive architectural changes required would jeopardize system stability and cause application compatibility problems. Microsoft recommends that security-conscious customers upgrade to a later operating system in order to keep pace with the changing security threat landscape and benefit from the more robust protections that later operating systems provide.

Which would seem to put the XP/2003 lineage one malware download away from connecting to a botnet that spoke just enough Domain protocol to exploit it and being pwned.

NSA could have such an exploit ready next week, Russian mafia in a month. The Prize is controlling close to 19% of the installed base.

For those who want to try it out, this stuff can now be managed also from CLI using the Windows Update PowerShell module. :)

Hope you don't mind constantly upgrading everything else to keep up with the rolling requirements (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office-365-system-requirements.aspx).

I'm just glad they dropped the "current or immediately previous version" requirement on the operating system (e.g. Windows 8.1/8, Android 5.1/5, etc).

As per July 2014, MS was hauling in $2.5Billion in revenue for Office 365, an increase of 2.5x over the previous year.

http://news.microsoft.com/2014...

In light of this news it shouldn't be long before we have Java code compiling and running on .NET runtimes.

We had that for many years now, in form of IKVM.

But, outside of a few very narrow interop scenarios, why would you want to? Java already has a perfectly good runtime, what's the point of porting it to another which is not significantly (if at all) better?

What you is, in fact, happening, is Microsoft supporting the existing Java stack as is - like this, or this. And it's not just Java, but also Python, and Node.js, and now R - and there will be more of that to come.

In DNS amplification attacks, party A sends packet to DNS server B which causes a huge amount (70x) traffic to flow to party C. The connection being DDoSed (party C, not server B) receives the traffic reguardless of how their name resolution is setup. This isn't server side, this is your connection being flooded. This has no effect on the DNS server as they have far better pipes than you do. This causes your router to be a smoking crater, hosts file or not.

I am looking at this from a client perspective, the one who is getting DDoSed by a DNS amplification attack. You seem to be looking at it from the uninterested party perspective of person D, where it generally won't matter anyways as you will notice DNS being slow and switch to another one.

I am not sure exactly what you mean by port, https://technet.microsoft.com/... the TCP sessions happen from source port 53 to any port. When doing a DNS amplification attack, the DNS server is being spoofed into sending massive amounts of traffic to a third party, these servers usually have very large connections as they are the lifeblood of the Internet, so they don't go offline during an attack, but the victim is the one that has issues due to DNS amplification, my 75Mbit connection won't hold up against 7Gbit of traffic from a DNS amplification attack

I will give MS the benefit of the doubt in this one. Good for them, and for the cause of Free Software.

However, about your rhetorical question:

Okay, I'll bite: how many entities has MS sued for .net patent violations on the subsequent versions, as you referenced? It's been the better part of a decade now, right? No doubt they have sprung their trap...?

I'll answer: I don't know, but MS doesn't need to sue when half of all Android devices worldwide paid extortion money to MS to the tune of USD 28 billion in confidential settlements, and it refuses to disclose which exact patents it is using for (extortion) licensing.

IMHO, the trap has sprung, and has bitten a lot of people. So yes, some distrust in MS is well warranted.

Microsoft Research must be evil because open source, and nobody remembers Project Invisible which contains actual Windows source code.

Deliberately conflating, but not confused.

It's hard to tell the difference from here ;-)

I can trivially run a program to throw up a screen that looks like the login screen on a PC at work. TRIVIALLY.

Adding a registry entry to remap keys is pretty trivial, too... as, for that matter, is running a different OS which doesn't treat Ctrl+Alt+Del in a special way! Thus any extra security provided is minimal. Which is fine - as you say, security doesn't have to be perfect in order to be useful - but in my view overselling the effectiveness of a measure is counterproductive.

Nobody here is arguing ctrl-alt-delete is some magical super thing,

Alas that is exactly what Microsoft claimed for years (possibly still claim?)...

There's Instagram, Vine and Snapchat clients for Windows

...Phone.

No, i didn't write phone because I didn't mean phone. I said "clients", which you wrongly inferred to mean getting them from the service provider.

PrimeVine is an example for Vine.
Snapper is an example for snapchat.

These are not the only examples.

I have no smartphone. Is a smartphone still a luxury, or has it become a necessity?

As I said, you can run it in bluestacks or just get a cheap smartphone or communicate in one of the many other ways available. You're limited only by limitations you are inventing.

Is BlueStacks based on Google Play or AOSP?

Im not even going to bother to do a lmgtfy link.

Android distributions based on AOSP lack Google Play Store and thus cannot download Google Play Store-exclusive applications.

Right.

In any case, it appears that BlueStacks is something that "everyone's gonna have to install"

No, it doesn't. Maybe in the contrived case where you don't have a smartphone, refuse to get a smartphone yet want to run a smartphone app. If for whatever reason it doesnt work in bluestacks then get a cheap smartphone or dont use the app.

Agree. I use Android, but they could really benefit from something like this:
https://www.google.com/chrome/...
or
http://windows.microsoft.com/e...
or
https://access.redhat.com/supp...
or
http://www.ubuntu.com/info/rel...

The first link is Google's, so it isn't like they don't know how to do this stuff.

Microsoft does NOT control their own update process for Windows phone. Updates are delayed by each carrier for "testing" before being released. You can visit Windows Phone Availability to see which carriers phones have been updated to the latest version, Denim. As it stands, only 1 carrier has issued the Denim update, and only to 2 phones. If you don't have one of those 2 phones from that specific carrier in the US, you can only obtain the Denim update by signing up as a developer. Of course, by doing so, you acknowledge that your carrier no longer has to support your phone since you are no longer running carrier approved firmware.

Microsoft does NOT control their own update process for Windows phone. Updates are delayed by each carrier for "testing" before being released. You can visit Windows Phone Availability to see which carriers phones have been updated to the latest version, Denim. As it stands, only 1 carrier has issued the Denim update, and only to 2 phones. If you don't have one of those 2 phones from that specific carrier in the US, you can only obtain the Denim update by signing up as a developer. Of course, by doing so, you acknowledge that your carrier no longer has to support your phone since you are no longer running carrier approved firmware.

You mean Windows XP mode? It gives you a (usually-invisible) VM, and you can export apps from that VM to your desktop, so they run in their own windows. I've used it and it's absolutely genius.

A "sink" where they actually grew in revenue and profits is quite a feat for a company that has "basically run out of solutions"...

http://www.microsoft.com/inves...

Do you _actually_ use different compiles on different platforms at all ????

'inline' is only a hint

I can chose between Microsoft's __inline or GCC god-awful __attribute__((always_inline)) syntax.

This the reason #define macro's haven't died. 100% guarantee inlining.

Do you even understand the point of having "standards" ??

You're constantly complaining about "breaking things." Gee, if only there was a way to migrate, mitigate, and deploy change ...

* http://www.volvoclub.org.uk/hi...

This isn't rocket science -- let alone basic computer science. A dead-line is set, we inform people, and we make the switch. It's not fucking hard.

>> Standardized error messages
> doing something that no one else has ever done.

Gee, why does Microsoft provide a _specific_ number for _each_ warning ???

* https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...

Do you even code in C++??

>> *"A Proposal to Add 2D Graphics Rendering and Display to C++"
> The C++ committee have their heads up their asses because they discuss a proposal submitted according to the correct procedure??

This is a solution in search of a problem.

Do you even _understand_ the term: Kitchen Sink or Over-engineering??

We already have graphics libraries, OpenGL / OpenGL ES, DirectX, etc. We don't need more shit in an already bloated language.

People like you are precisely part of the problem with C++.

1. Completely failing to understand _practical_ matters.
2. Continue to make excuses for why their tools are crap.
3. And then post blatantly false information that gets modded up to Insightful without a clue.

> Who knows about the bitcoin mining because that's all nonsense anyway.

Nobody in their right mind uses GPUs to mine bitcoin any more. They use custom mining chips (ASICs) which are about 100 times more efficient, because the calculations are done entirely in hardware, and being fairly simple, can be parallelized much more than graphics cores.

As far as bitcoin being nonsense, the New York Stock Exchange and a large bank just invested in a bitcoin company: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/..., and Microsoft accepts bitcoins: https://commerce.microsoft.com... . Evidently they don't think it is nonsense.

> But I'll bet their little programs that they run using $1 of electricity to get 50 cents in bitcoins

I did mine at a loss sometimes back in the day, but it was in the background, for a graphics card I was already using in this PC. So I only had to pay for the incremental electricity of the card running full bore instead lower levels. The $60 of extra electricity is worth $680 in bitcoins today. I stopped mining in mid-2013 when the custom chips started going into volume production. Not all of us are idiots.